The competitive structure of the coffee industry and the impact of fair trade coffee

This thesis examines the current coffee market especially from the viewpoint of market structure. Though several previous literature suggest the presence of market power by large roasters or distributors in consuming countries, none of them showed any models or empirical analyses to prove this. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kojima, Hiroaki
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14298